GREAT BRITAIN: Perfect Victory

In other countries Conservatives dream vainly of victories as perfect as
that won throughout the United Kingdom last week by the world's
foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov.
18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election
firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds.
Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough
brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique
proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no
bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim...